[Incanto]

I hope my title is not too confusing.
Anyways, I have a problem. I am relatively new to Java and I am still getting used to everything.
I thought I could just quickly program something with a few graphics and such but then I already encountered my first problems.
I found this more or less tutorial on the import of bufferedimages and thought I can use this as it would be exactly what I need. I encountered the first problem when I started trying to use it.

 //the original idea was to just make a constructor load the image and draw it by adding it to my JFrame
JFrame f = new JFrame("Load Image");  
             
    f.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
      public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) 
      {
        System.exit(0);
      }
    });
    
    
   
   
    f.add(new gphx("path of image", pos_x, pos_y);
f.add(new gphx("path of other image", pos_x_2, pos_y_2);
    
    f.pack();
    f.setVisible(true); 

this was a problem though as it would not overlay images. So, I thought I should just make my image class to where it contains all images that should be drawn like this:

JFrame f = new JFrame("Load Image");
    JLabel label = new JLabel("This does not work");
    
             
    f.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
      public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) 
      {
        System.exit(0);
      }
    });
    
    
    gphx g = new gphx(800,800);
    g.loadImage("strawberry.jpg",50,50);
    g.loadImage("pGlo.jpg",190,100);
   
    f.add(g);
    f.add(label);
    f.pack();
    f.setVisible(true);
    

it works perfectly with the images, but when i want to add another layer (the text) then it only draws either or, (only the one that i add last to my JFrame...so long story short, my question is how do i make it to where i can just have everything in there with pictures/text overlapping?

[tony12095]

Okay, first, you are doing this not all wrong, but it is not completely the way to do things. When you have a JFrame, instead of having a WindowListener, you should use <JFrame var>.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.CLOSE_ON_EXIT); this will say when the "x" button is pressed, close the application. It is much shorter and easier to use instead of WindowListener. Second off, when you do graphics in Java, you usually have a draw method with Graphics as the parameter.

An Example:

public void draw(Graphics g) {
    
     // image information and loading such as
     g.drawImage(<image>, <x>, <y>);
}

this will make the images draw onto your JFrame or JPanel, no matter how many images you draw onto it.

* PS: to make them overlap with the way shown above, just set the x and y variables the same thing. *

This post has been edited by tony12095: 19 February 2013 - 02:08 PM

[Ghlavac]

Except they won't overlap so much as they'll hide each other; if he wants true overlapping he'll need to use PNG's with some transparency.

[CasiOo]

I don't know what this Gphx class is, maybe you should post it? Seems like it's a Component?

Anyway..
You could be using a JLayeredPane
As it says in its name, you will be able to place components in different layers (depth), and you can in that way make components overlap
You can see how to use a JLayeredPane here